Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Reveries of Solitude: Consisting of Essays in Prose
If any one could produce a plan of govern ment, to which five hundred different perfons would not make five hundred objeftions, I would vote for having it fubitituted in the place of our own. But who can liften with patience to complaints of tyranny and defpotifm, in this country, where no Arifiocrate, nor the King himfelf, can take a duck or a goofe from the meaneft fubjeft; or commit him to the round houfe, but in conformity to the laws of the land? Or who does not ficken at this eternal cant about civil and religious liberty, in an age when, with unparalleled indecency and outrage, people abufe, with impunity, the legi?ative and executive powers, King, Lords and Commons?
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